Attention, Attention; Politicians, World Leaders And Other Misbehaving Types, You Have A 48 Hour Window To Act Up!

I will be traveling for the next two days and may or may not have time to write, depending on the availability of a computer. Sooooooo, all politicians and other misbehaving types are safe from a good literary thrashing for the next 48 hours. But, that doesn't mean I won't read a paper or Internet news site and I do have several topics I will think about while driving cross country. So much dirt and only a lifetime to expose it.

FAO Summit You Idiot, Not FAO Schwartz!

The FAO meeting in Rome this week is shaping up to be quite interesting as far as United Nations sponsored meetings. First it was the arrival of two people who have no more business than the man in the moon, being at the meeting other than they were on shopping sprees in Rome and wanted to stop in and see a few old friends if they could find one in the room, but alas, they have probably killed all of them during their rise to power. Mahmud Ahmadinejad and Robert Mugabe, what a pair those nut less tools at the UN admitted to their meeting. Nut less, you say is such a crass term, well everyone including the nut less Ambassador to the UN from the USA gave their nut less protest and condemned their presence at the meeting. That is where anyone with nuts or balls as they have also been called would have packed up their Butterball Turkeys and grabbed their goodie bags, stuffed with fancy food products, and told the UN they would be happy to meet at another location for some serious talks without these two thugs, but Nooooooo, that aint gonna happen because this is the UN and sending these two packing would show that the UN has what it takes to really take the lead. One fact that is very interesting is that neither Zimbabwe or Iran are major or even minor food producers, Zimbabwe was at one time when it was the former Rhodesia, but Mr. Mugabe took care of that and has steadily driven his country deeper and deeper into poverty and hunger. Iran is more concerned with nuclear (nuculer to those of you from Texas) weapons production than food production and when oil finally runs out they are going to have one heck of a time feeding humus made from yellow cake and plutonium pie, to the masses.

Aside from that, there is ample blame to go around for the rising cost of food around the world, the ethanol people are taking their usual beating at the hands of the do gooders. Ethanol is a very temporary fix at best and will hopefully go away in about twenty years when it is supposed to. The best way to lower food costs are to remove the subsidies to farmers. I am not aware of many other industries other than farmers who get subsidized, let alone paid not to grow certain crops as part of their program. I know this may sound un-American but farmers in this day and age should be able to make it without nursing on the government tit. How about farmers losing their subsidies, growing more to help bring down costs of food and still making money in agribusiness. I know it sounds novel and is probably a little harder than this explanation on paper but not a whole lot. And while they are at it have countries who are in the business of producing food being the main players at these meeting and send the UN based spies from non food producing countries who are just looking for a trip to Rome, on their way.

I am a firm believer that the major food producing countries have an obligation to help provide to those less fortunate, but, at the same time we should be sharing technology and general agricultural knowledge with the less fortunate countries so they can in turn begin to produce some of the food necessary to feed their countries. But then again, if something like that happened there would be almost no need for the UN and we all know that can't happen.